The Outsiders
ELA Basics
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Vocab
The Woodland Way
100

This character is the narrator of The Outsiders.

Who is Ponyboy?

100

This word means the opposite of “generous.”

What is selfish?

100

Based on the informative text you read this year, the Wright Brothers are famously known for what?

What is creating and flying the first airplane?

100

This means retelling the main points of a text in your own words without using bias.

What is a summary?

100

These are the names are the 3 principals at WMS.

Who are Mr. Blankenship, Mr. Satterfield, and Dr. Mull?

200

Ponyboy and Johnny hide out in this location after the incident in the park.

What is the church in Windrixville? 

200

"The wind whispered through the trees” is an example of this figurative language.

What is personification?

200

In the story Retrieved Reformation, this is the name Jimmy Valentine uses after starting a new life. 

What is Ralph D. Spencer?

200

When a question asks you to tell how two things are alike, it wants you to do this.

What is compare?

200
This is the kind of lunch, according to Mr. Blankenship's announcements, that we have here!

What is 'delicious' and 'nutritious'? 

300

This character famously tells Ponyboy to “Stay gold.”

Who is Johnny Cade?

300

Identify the subject pronoun in the following sentence. "I don't want to go to the park with you or her."

What is 'I'?

300

In the novel Zane and The Hurricane, what city does Zane go to?

What is New Orleans? 

300

ACE stands for this.

What is 'answer', 'cite,' and 'explain.'

300

This is the main topic of the first ELA unit.

What is pronouns?

400

This U.S. state is the likely setting of The Outsiders.

What is Oklahoma? 

400

This is the part of the story where the main conflict begins to build, and it is where most of the story takes place.

What is the rising acition?

400

This superstitious schoolteacher is the main character of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Who is Ichabod Crane?

400

When you break a text into parts to better understand it, you do this.

What is analyze/annotate?

400

That is what the 'C' stands for in the CATS behavior matrix.

What is Cooperate?

500

The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by this poet symbolizes the fleeting nature of innocence in the novel.

Who is Robert Frost?

500

When a reader uses clues from the text and their own knowledge to figure something out, they are making this.

What is an inference?
500

This event causes the Grinch’s heart to grow three sizes and changes him completely.

What is hearing the Whos sing joyfully even after losing all their presents and decorations? (or close to this) 

500

This is what you identify when you explain why the author wrote the text.

What is the author’s purpose?

500

One of these is the official red of Woodland Middle School. Burgandy, Crimson, or Cardinal.

What is Cardinal?